Coyote Ugly

The scene is a rundown shack in the Arizona desert, the home of
Pewsey family. After an absence of a dozen years son Dowd Pewsey
returns with his new wife, Penny, whom his family has never met

His arrival exacerbates the tensions and obsessions which beset
the Pewsey clan - The mother, Andreas, is a slovenly slattern who
has long harbored incestuous desires towards her son

The father, Red, is a foul-mouthed degenerate who has similar
designs on their daughter, Scarlet, but quickly transfers these
to his new daughter-in-law

While the daughter, Scarlet, is a bizarre twelve-year old who lusts
after her brother and tries to get rid of her new rival, Penny, by
stranding her in the desert

Heightened in style, the play swings from outrageous humor to
chilling violence as it explores the twisted psyches of its unique
characters and, in the end, exposes the shocking, gnawing secret
which has brought them to their present state

Achieving national notice in its production by Chicago's Steppenwolf
Theatre Company, this stunning, explosive play was also presented
at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, under the sponsorship of the
American National Theatre

Outspoken and often violent in words and deeds, but brilliantly
theatrical throughout, it examines the tragicomic conflicts and
passions which beset a rural family in America's southwest — a
family for which love has long since soured into hatred

"… shocking and hilarious. It pulls no punches and moves ever
forward in its assault on our sensibilities" ~ Washington Journal